"The Casino", Gun Hill - Southwold, Suffolk - Octagon Buildings on Waymarking.com

Known locally as the Casino. The word originally meant a pavilion constructed for pleasure and this Casino was built buy James Thompson, a local wealthy merchant, as a reading room during the late 18th century.

The building has been a library, a reading room and a coastguard lookout. Now the octagonal Casino on Gun Hill at Southwold is a radio station. (visit link)

It is a grade II listed building - (visit link)

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